Top 5 CBD Dog Treats in the Market [2020]

Many pet owners, looking for natural remedies to treat their furry companions, often wonder if CBD could have similar effects on them as it does on humans. They also worry if it is safe for them.

The answer to both these questions is a BIG YES! Like humans, dogs too have a nervous system that interacts with cannabinoids, like CBD, to react with the body.

However, not all CBD brands offer quality pet products.

That is why, Green The Vote Ok regularly reviews a large number of CBD brands in the market, and prepares a list of the best products that are safe, effective, affordable, as well as are of good quality.

There are quite a few CBD brands that have a separate section for pet products, like dog treats, soft chews, and CBD oils, optimized for consumption by dogs and cats. There are also other CBD brands that make and sell only specialized pet CBD products.

While our list of “Top CBD Dog Treats” contains both these types of brands, we have made sure to include only those brands that have successfully designed dog-friendly dog biscuits and treats that are loved by both the dogs and their pet parents (for the effects those products have on their pockets and their family life).

These products contain CBD extracts that are not only safe but also effective on different health conditions from which dogs normally suffer.

Best CBD Dog Treats – How We Made The List

Each year, “Green The Vote Ok” releases “The Best of” lists of different CBD products. To create the list of “Best CBD Dog Treats”, we reached out to our direct subscribers and readers and sought their opinion. We also studied user reviews posted on brand websites and other blogs.

While we never claim that our list is all-inclusive or contains all the best products in the market, we still stand by our lists, as over 4,500 people, we interviewed, vouched for them, and user reviews have conformed to their opinion.

To make sure we suggest only the best of products to our readers, we break down each product according to different factors.

Factors to judge CBD Dog Treats

Potency: A CBD product’s potency is a judge of its effectiveness. Safety profiles don’t make a CBD product a great one! Animals, especially dogs, have a sensitive endocannabinoid system. They don’t need as much CBD as humans do. However, the product’s potency will decide how well and how long it will work.

Ingredients: Dogs’ bodies aren’t equipped to handle the same kind of food items like humans. Products, meant for consumption by dogs, including CBD products, are required to be optimized for them. Indeed, CBD is good for vertebrate animals. However, CBD products also contain other ingredients. Dog-specific CBD products aren’t made with the same kind of ingredients as those made for humans, neither do they taste the same. The ingredients must…

Be optimized for dogs’ consumption

Not contain any harmful chemicals, contaminants, or high levels of psychoactive substances (dogs can’t handle THC the way we can.)

Be natural (preferably organic)

Enhance CBD’s effects, not hinder it

Hemp source: The CBD extracts in products must be sourced from hemp cultivated on regulated farmlands, like in the US and parts of the European Union. This ensures the end-products’ safety, effectiveness, and quality. It also makes sure that the products don’t contain high levels of THC.

Extract type: CBD products for dogs are usually sourced from two types of extracts. They are either full-spectrum CBD blends [i.e. whole-plant extract, with all cannabinoids (including THC), terpenes, fatty acids, minerals, and flavonoids] or broad-spectrum [same as full-spectrum, sans THC]. CBD products for pets are rarely available in the isolate form.

Lab tests: When it comes to the health of your canine companions, you should only trust brands that subject their products to third-party lab testing and make the lab reports public. These lab reports would testify to the authenticity, potency, efficiency, quality, and safety of the CBD pet products.

Guarantees: Brands, confident about their products’ quality and effectiveness, can promise you a full refund if you’re dissatisfied with the results or receive them in a bad condition. This tells you that you can trust them to do right by you.

Brand Image: Established brands will always make sure they don’t lose customer loyalty or trust. Besides, the time put in by the experts on the company payroll in developing the products makes for safe and effective products.

Price: CBD products are quite expensive. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. However, our reviewers only recommend products that give you the Best Value for Money.

Top 5 CBD Dog Treats – 2020

#1 FabCBD – Editor’s Choice

Despite being a comparatively new and small company, FabCBD has successfully created its niche in the competitive CBD market. Within a matter of a few years, the company has been able to garner the trust and loyalty of a large customer base. Its line of products includes only the highest quality, the most potent, safe, and effective CBD products.

The company is very transparent about its practices and operations, including its farming, lab testing, branding, customer support, and customer feedback.

Like its CBD products for humans, their pet products, too, are sourced from non-GMO hemp, grown on regulated farmlands of Colorado, US. Their ingredients are vegan, gluten-free, and suitable for all kinds of dogs, irrespective of size and health conditions.

FabCBD’s Dog Treats: Highlights

Potency:

3mg per treat

50 treats a packet, offering a total of 150mg CBD

Ingredients:

Their dog treats come in 3 variants according to their ingredients and effects. They are:

#2 HolistaPet – Pet’s Favorite & Easy on Your Pocket

HolistaPet is a CBD brand specialized in pet products, focused specifically on making CBD products for dogs, cats, and horses. Besides being organic and vegan, its CBD dog treats are also gluten- and dairy-free.

The brand is big on its transparency – lab reports, quality-controlled farming and production, and safe extraction practices. Their website is clean and user-friendly.

However, their website does not contain any specific CBD dosage for treats. They, do, however, have a dosage chart for their pet tinctures.

Although they mention “Full-Spectrum CBD” on their website’s “dog treats” pages, the extracts are, in fact, broad-spectrum, as they contain zero-THC.

Their customer rewards program offers $2 discount coupons to customers for every review of its products.

#3 CbdMD – Higher Potency Variants at Best Prices

CbdMD is one of those brands that make CBD products for both humans and animals with all kinds of conditions. Accordingly, their products are organic, vegan, and gluten-free.

Known for its high-quality, safe, effective, as well as affordable broad-spectrum products, cbdMD runs transparent farming and processing operations. CbdMD makes its third-party lab tests public, including those of their pet products.

The brand’s CBD dog treats are specifically made from CBD isolates mixed in other hemp-based cannabinoids and dog-friendly natural ingredients.

The unspecified ingredients are present in all the 4 variants, including Calming Bites with Roasted Peanut Butter Flavor.

Flavor:

Calming bites in roasted peanut butter flavor

Relief bites in turmeric flavor

Restore bites in coconut flavor

Calming bites (Limited Edition) in pumpkin spice flavor

Hemp source:

Oregon, US

Extract type:

Full-Spectrum

Lab tests:

DB Labs

Guarantees:

30-day money-back guarantee if dissatisfied with products, no questions asked

Shipping Time:

They offer free shipping for all orders above $40

Standard Shipping: 2- 6 business days for a charge of $4.95. Shipped via USPS and/or DHL.

2-Day Express Shipping: Within 2 days for a shipping cost of $9.95 for orders under $29.99, and $4.95 for orders above $29.99. Shipped via UPS. (Saturdays & Sundays, and holidays excluded). Express shipping can’t be delivered to a PO Box

Method of Use & Dosage of CBD Dog Treats

Just like humans, CBD dosage for dogs depends on the body weight, type, and severity of the condition, individual endocannabinoid system, age, gender, etc. Unlike humans, though, animals don’t need as much CBD as we do, as their endocannabinoid receptors are far more receptive than ours.

As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved CBD, there is also no specific dosing chart for CBD as we do for conventional drugs. Hence, we have to go with the trial and error method of finding your dog’s CBD sweet spot.

To guide users, CBD brands selling dog products usually recommend an approximate dosage for small, medium, and large dogs. For instance, most brands recommend 0.1 – 0.2mg CBD for every pound in weight of your dog. So, for a dog weighing approximately 25 pounds, around 4.5mg – 5mg of CBD should do the trick!

Nonetheless, any food supplement or drug carries a certain amount of risk of adverse or allergic reactions. One can never predict the outcome until it has been used by someone. With CBD, it is always best to consult your dog’s veterinarian before putting him on CBD.

And if you do choose to administer him or her with CBD, make sure you give too much at one go. Start low and go slow, until you find the right dosage. That’s the thumb rule for CBD with anyone – hooman or canine!

Matt Hansel is a Medical Practitioner, who has been writing and researching about cannabis since 2014. His popular quotes which we like are: \"Don\'t use CBD oil for a cure, use it as a precaution\" \"CBD should be considered as any other vitamin supplement and your body needs it!\"

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